When I was on that boat, I realized the only way I would feel creatively challenged was if I totally changed everything about my environment and put myself in a storm, in a sense.

I'm right at a time when I'm strongly finding my identity inside of my work.

There's such good people out there where there filmmaking world is alive.

It's funny, but we were living on this small island off the coast of Charleston, South Carolina when I was 9.

I think that often times Hollywood panders to the cliches of small town life, specifically Southern small town life, and I think that this movie does the opposite

I had a Southern accent but I had broken it so hard.

When I was on that boat, I realized the only way I would feel creatively challenged was if I totally changed everything about my environment and put myself in a storm, in a sense.